Not to be a backseat driver for Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh… but it’s hard not to in this case. Down 24-17, Baltimore starred their final drive of the game at the Cincinnati 46-yard line with 3:14 left in the fourth quarter. Things were actually going well for the Ravens — with 1:20 left in the game, quarterback Tyler Huntley completed an eight-yard pass to receiver Demarcus Robinson, which, accentuated by an illegal use of hands penalty on Bengals cornerback Cam Taylor-Britt, put the ball at the Cincinnati 28-yard line. Then, Huntley completed an 11-yard pass to running back J.K. Dobbins, which put the ball at the Cincinnati 17-yard line.
And then… well, and then, the Ravens let 33 seconds tick off the clock before running their next play. Huntley threw an incomplete pass to tight end Mark Andrews with 34 seconds left. Then, guard Kevin Zeitler was busted for a holding penalty, which took the ball back to the 27-yard line. Huntley then threw incomplete to Andrews, followed by a Cincinnati time out, followed by another Huntley incompletion to Andrews, and finally, Harbaugh taking the first of Baltimore’s two remaining timeouts. The Bengals called their second timeout right after that, and with eight seconds left in the game, Huntley could only heave s desperation pass into the end zone, hoping for the best.
